KJV dictionary & concordance
A large, long piece of timber used as a support, bar, or weaver's beam; in the eye figure, such a timber represents a conspicuous fault.
Definition sources
Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Judges 16:14
Complete exact-word concordance
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brothers eye, but considerest not the beame that is in thine owne eye?
1611 marginal noteLuk. 6.41.
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let mee pull out the mote out of thine eye, and beholde, a beame is in thine owne eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beame out of thine owne eye: and then shalt thou see clearely to cast out the mote out of thy brothers eye.
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Historical English dictionary sources
A large, long piece of timber used as a support, bar, balance arm, or weaver's beam.
